“Baskin reveled in the possibilities of the corporeal, even if it would fall away to time without his bronze armor, and he believed that creating art was our way of staving off death. ‘Our human frame, our gutted mansion, our enveloping sack of beef and ash is yet a glory,’ he said. “Glorious in defining our universal sodality and in defining our utter uniqueness. The human figure is the image of all men, and of one man. It contains all and can express all.”

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